The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-29
Notes and Opinions,

THE trade-dollar that you have after
September Sd you may keep as curios-
ity. The government will not redeem
the coins after that date.
CONGRESSMAN BLoUNT of Georgia
thinks that Cleveland will be hurt the
most on account of the flags incident,
because the circumstances destroy the
impression that he gives careful atten-
ton to every official act.
"THE trouble with Grover" said a
Buffalonian, " is that he is too gener-
Gus with other peoples property. He'd
no more right to give away the flags
than he had to present Queen Victoria
with the New York custom-house.
THE latest idea in Washington is to
live without eating. An alleged physi-
clan there claims to have discovered
a fluid which enables one to fast in
definitely, grow stronger daily, work
without fatigue and sleep without rock
ing, and yet it is not a drug. Some
country editors will rejoice over the
discovery.
GENERAL STEPHEN THOMAS of
Shenandoah Valley fame was in Bos-
ton and assisted in the Bunker Hill an
niversary celebration by firing off one
of the big guns mounted behind the old
breastworks occupied by the colonial
troops. Both his grandfathers took part
in the revolution on the American side.
-Nec York Tribune.
For the information of the West
Randolph Herald and NeUs, and to
correct the false impressions conveyed
in paragraph in that paper last week,
we will state that we publish the YER
mont Chronicle, and met the committee
on that paper at Swanton week before
last. and did not meet " the committee
on the Vermont Christian Messenger"
THE circular from the war depart
ment informing" the respective states"
in which the regiments were raised
from which the flags were captured, is
very formal and solemn document.
There are great many relics in the
war department that, according to the
precedent just noticed, should be dis
distributed among I" the respective
states.'
Mr.. POwDERLY of the knights of
Labor has been giving working-men
some very sound and pertinent advice
on the subject of intemperance. He
told an assembly at Lynn, the other
day, that in one Pennsylvania county in
single year ST. 100000 was spent for
liquor and that it was estimated that
81 100000 of the amount came from
the pockets of working-men.
THE folly on the part of the repub-
licans to shape policy or name cam
didate to coax back the rafting republic
cans of 1884 is too plain for argument.
There are but few leading republicans
that indulge in such hope, and they
must have been convinced, since the
mugwump batteries opened upon Sena-
tor Sherman, that the Independent is
wallowing in the mire" of Cleveland
idolizing and subserviency to the south
ern sentiment deeper than ever.-B0S-
ton Traveller
THE San Francisco Chronicle con-
graduates the Pacific coast on the be-
ginning of general migration of the
Chinese of California to the cities of
the Atlantic, principally to New York.
The facts by which it iustifes this in
teresting announcement are, first, the
steady decline in the business of the
Chinese in California, compelling them
to sell out and transfer their affairs to
the larger eastern cities; and, secondly,
report from Pittsburgh that from
fifteen to twenty Cinnamon are passing
through that town, eastward bound,
every morning.
IT is fairly questionable if at this
time this country is really in need of
any more emigrants. even though they
be of the superior class, for it is not at
all certain that our labor markets can
absorb them as rapidly as they arrive.
1t is only natural that we should first
J consider those who are already here
, and desire that their welfare and pros
perity shall be first assured 1t is not
at all desirable, if our labor market is
already overstocked, if it is already
filled with idle men and women who
, would work if they could get work to
do, that hundreds of thousands of
foreign WOrkmen SnOulu DE poured lntC
it.-Philadelphio Inquirer.
OF the attempt to prevent the use OF
Faneuil Hall for banquet in celebra.
ton of the Queens jubilee, the Boston
Journal says: There has rarely been
so great tumult with so slight provo.
cation. 1t has been the practice to per-
NIT the use of Faneuil Hall for any
| legitimate gathering of citizens, politi-
cal, social or religious, upon the OBJ
servance of certain simple conditions
1t is perfectly clear that the public
rights are seriously abridged if one
l class of citizens is to be permitted tC
, say that another class shall not use the
hall" 1t is to be feared that some OF
the Irish agitators want more liberty
for themselves than they are willing tC
. grant to other people.
2 II is a saying of Bacon that " death
. openeth the gate to good fame" In
= the United States, at least, the saying
l is true. The tendency to say nothing
9 but good of the dead is carried to eX'
cess. No matter what bitter truths are
i said of an American public man when
l living, little but praise is said of hin
D when he is dead This is particularly